Word: palme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid storms of laughter signs were hung on the Palace door reading "Vacant" and "For Rent." Thousands of mobsters, unable to crowd indoors, tore up palm fronds in the Palace gardens, marched off waving them in triumph. Some stopped at the U. S. Embassy to cheer Ambassador Welles who promised "continued mediation " declared that "Cubans are solving their own problems," begged for "control and calm...
...Thumb and little finger touch across the palm while the three other finders are held straight. †The Geneva World Conference for Reduction and Limitation of Armaments also adjourned without substantial achievement (TIME, June...
...Subcommittee 36 of the Economic Committee last week unanimously resolved to promote a study of diseases of the coconut palm. Equally unimportant to most delegates seemed the sailing from England last week of No. 1 Brain Trusty Raymond Moley, whose visit was a fizzle from the Conference viewpoint since it turned out that he, hailed on his arrival in London as "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." did not in fact come empowered to speak with authority for President Roosevelt...
...linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
Half a million solid gold Russian rubles ($250,000) soothed Viceroy Li's palm before he consented to a means by which Russia might build her imperialistic railway across what was after all part of China. Created was a dummy Russo-Chinese Bank which built the railway chiefly frorn the proceeds of bonds sold to small, thrifty Frenchmen who, 37 years after, are still screaming for their money...